Good article but of no real value to me at this time. Reason is simple... I can't get Vista to restore files backed up on an external hard drive, where all 20,000 plus files remain, zipped up nice and tight.
Any suggestion as to how to restore the files, short of copying back to the C drive and un-zipping all files and trying to figure out where the files belong?
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I went through the whole backup program and had a total of 57 cd's. After I put my system back to the original and tried to restore the backup disks I went through the whole 57 disks as if they were being copied to my computer. On the very last one it stopped at 97% and wouldn't go any further. The basic information is in the folder for programs, etc. but I don't see the photos, music, etc. Can anybody help me, too?
I had a customer that powered down his Compaq laptop before a Vista update was completed, sending the machine into an endless update installation loop. I used the recovery partition to backup the files to a USB external drive before recovering the unit to the originally purchased image. After the recovery was completed, I tried to use the restore wizard to restore the files to the new image. I got a message that no valid backups were on the USB drive no matter what option I chose. I then went to the USB drive and double clicked on the backup file which started the restore wizard. The files were restored to a folder on the internal hard drive. Vista allowed me access to the folders, but did not allow me access to the individual files stating that "You cannot open this file because you do not have permissions to access this file location". I made sure the user account name was the same and the password was the same (used to be a hiccup with XP). I am one step closer than jensendl, but still unable to access files. Any suggestions?
Didn't help at all. I made a backup disk and want to restore files from the disc
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